Rants on Cycling and on Life:
Photos of people and bicycles that pass in front of my camera

1.17.2008

nice pipe!

NICE PIPE!

this shot was taken yesterday afternoonriding with a pipe was not an option at the same time todaytoday was wet snow also known as winter mix or raingot home a little wet from my short straight commute homethe rain and snow came to me as somewhat of a surpriseI left out this morning unprepared for anything wetescentially head to tow fleecewindstopper top... but fleece just the sameI had gotten dressed after a short pre-work trail run with my black dog brutusnothing dramatic... maybe twenty-five... maybe thirty-fivethere were some short hillsI was comfortable with some thick layers on that short runso I dressed for cold on the bikeyet I did not dress for cold and wet

on my short ride into work I rode alongside heidi on her jake the snake commuter rigwe talked about thingswe talked about her two hour ride before workwe talked about the bac openingswe talked about the basic good morning how ya doing stuff

we cut lanes and moved at a rate far faster than the car trafficwe stopped at a red lightthere was a large city truckone of those city trucks filled with sand or saltthis was the first time I had considered snow or ice for this dayheidi had not heard any forecast of snow either

while working in the salt mines it snowedin the early morning it snowed beautiful quarter size snow flakeswhen I was near a window I fought impulse to day dreamluckily my day was spent deep in the mines without the distraction of the glorious snowfallby afternoon that glorious snowfall turned into a rainy mix

I got home a little wetnot so wet that I bothered to change before I grabbed the shovelI knew that if I went inside I would sit downso I started to shovelshoveling is like road ridingit takes a while for the boredom to hypnotize youhypnotize you into enjoying things

I enjoy shoveling snowit can be very zenlike raking sand

I shoved a path from my back door to the alleythen I shovel around the kid's clubhouse ladderI did not shovel the complete porchbefore I shoveled out front I shoveled in the alleyshoveled around my trashcans

shoveled an area for my arrivals and departures on the bikeif it ices... I like to have a good place to start and stop

after shoveling my front steps and some of the sidewalk in each direction I took brutus outactually brutus had been out with me the whole time I was shovelingso when I got him across the street in the woods the hike was shortI could see that the snow was invigorating himthis was not enough to convince me that I needed to actually hike himit was raining and I was already wetbrutus picked up on this so he did his business and we went home

I really would not have been so wet had I not spent so much time messing with the flow of the slush down the curbs and in the alley

no ride after work, but I did have that short run in the morningif that excuse does not work I am going to try the days off are as important as days on alabi

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